Patrice Chereau
Patrice Chéreau (born November 2, 1944 in Lézigné , Maine-et-Loire department , † October 7, 2013 in Paris ) was a French film, theater and opera director , screenwriter and actor .
Life
Patrice Chéreau went to school in Paris and was already noticed by the Parisian critics as a director, actor and set designer in the amateur theater of the grammar school , so that he was celebrated as a theater prodigy at the age of 15. At the age of 19, productions at a professional theater followed.
In 1966 he built what is known as a dedicated folk theater in the Paris suburb of Sartrouville . There he staged a. a. the piece The soldiers by Jakob Michael Reinhold Lenz . From 1970 there was a close collaboration with the Milan Piccolo Teatro , with Paolo Grassi and Giorgio Strehler . He worked in Germany for the first time in 1975 when he directed Edward Bonds Lear .
From the late 1960s, Chéreau worked exclusively with the architect and painter Richard Peduzzi , who designed all the stage sets for him.
Chéreau took an early interest in music theater , staging his first opera in 1969. In 1974, he staged Les Contes d'Hoffmann by Jacques Offenbach (conductor Georges Prêtre ) in Paris . His Ring des Nibelungen became legendary on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the Richard Wagner Festival in Bayreuth in 1976 - also known as the Ring of the Century . His Lulu interpretation of Alban Berg's opera in Paris in 1979 (world premiere of the three-act version by Friedrich Cerha ; conductor Pierre Boulez ) also caused a stir . In 1994 he directed Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's Don Giovanni (conductor Daniel Barenboim ) for the Salzburg Festival . The German Academy for Language and Poetry awarded him the Friedrich Gundolf Prize in 1993 for conveying German culture abroad ; In 2003 he was awarded the Kythera Prize and in 2008 the European Theater Prize.
Patrice Chéreau also made a name for himself as a widely acclaimed film director . He made his first film The Meat of the Orchid in 1975. His greatest success was the award-winning film The Bartholomew Night in 1994 with Isabelle Adjani in the leading role. His 2001 film Intimacy , an explicit portrait of a sexual relationship and the emotional alienation that surrounds it , also caused quite a stir . With this film he won the Golden Bear at the 2001 Berlinale . His next film His Brother was also in competition there and brought Chéreau the Silver Bear in the category Best Director at the 2003 Berlinale . In 2009, Chéreaus Film Persécution was invited to compete at the 66th Venice Film Festival .
Chéreau was politically active all his life. In 1962 he demonstrated against the Algerian war, in 1979 he supported the future Czech President Václav Havel , he showed Bartholomew's Night in Sarajevo during the 1994 siege. When the right-wing populist FPÖ became part of the Austrian government coalition in 2000, Chéreau boycotted the Salzburg Festival.
On October 7, 2013, Patrice Chéreau died of lung cancer in Paris at the age of 68 . He was buried on the Cimetière du Père Lachaise (16th Division).
Filmography
Director
- 1973: Le compagnon (TV movie)
- 1975: The flesh of the orchid (La chair de l'orchidée) - also script
- 1978: The last edition (Judith Therpauve) - also screenplay
- 1983: The seduced man - L'Homme blessé (L'homme blessé) - also screenplay
- 1985: La fausse suivante (TV)
- 1987: Hôtel de France - also screenplay
- 1991: Amnesty International - Writing Against Oblivion
- 1992: Le temps et la chambre (TV)
- 1994: Wozzeck (TV)
- 1994: The Bartholomew Night (La Reine Margot) - also screenplay
- 1996: Dans la solitude des champs de coton (TV)
- 1998: If you love me, take the train (Ceux qui m'aiment prendront le train) - also screenplay
- 2001: Intimacy - also screenplay
- 2003: His brother (Son frère) - also screenplay
- 2005: Gabrielle - Love of my Life (Gabrielle) - also screenplay
- 2009: Restless (Persécution) - also screenplay
script
- 1978: Les contes d'Hoffmann (TV)
actor
- 1983: Danton
- 1985: Adieu Bonaparte
- 1992: The Last of the Mohicans (The Last of the Mohicans)
- 1994: Bête de scène
- 1996: Dans la solitude des champs de coton (TV)
- 1997: Lucie Aubrac
- 1999: Time found again (Le temps retrouvé , speaker)
- 2002: Close to paradise (Au plus près du paradis)
- 2003: Wolfzeit (Le temps du loup)
Theater work (direction)
play
- Peer Gynt by Henrik Ibsen (1981; TV)
- La Fausse suivante by Pierre Marivaux (1985; TV)
- Hamlet by Shakespeare (1990 / III; TV)
- Les Amants du Pont-Neuf (1991)
- ... The lovers from Pont-Neuf (Germany)
- … Lovers on the Ninth Bridge (Australia: video title)
- ... The Lovers on the Bridge (USA)
- Le Temps et la chambre (Time and the Room) by Botho Strauss (1992; TV)
- Villa Mauresque (1992)
- Phèdre by Jean Racine (2003; Théâtre de l'Odéon , Ruhrtriennale , TV)
- Rêve d'Automne by Jon Fosse (2010/11; Paris Louvre and Wiener Festwochen )
Opera
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The Ring of the Nibelung by Richard Wagner (1976–1980; Bayreuth Festival , TV), Jahrhundertring
- Das Rheingold : the evening before the stage festival
- Die Walküre : First day of the stage festival
- Siegfried : Second day of the stage festival
- Götterdämmerung : Third day of the stage festival
- Les Contes d'Hoffmann ( Hoffmann's Tales ) by Jacques Offenbach (1978; TV)
- Lulu by Alban Berg (1979; Paris Opera , TV)
- Lucio Silla by Mozart (1985; TV)
- Wozzeck by Alban Berg (1994; TV)
- Così fan tutte by Mozart (2005; Festival d'Aix-en-Provence , TV; later also Paris Opera and Theater an der Wien )
- From a house of the dead by Leoš Janáček (2007; Festival d'Aix-en-Provence, Wiener Festwochen , Theater an der Wien)
- Tristan and Isolde by Richard Wagner (2007; La Scala in Milan )
- Elektra by Richard Strauss (2013; Festival d'Aix-en-Provence)
Documentaries
- Patrice Chéreau, passion for the body. (OT: Patrice Chéreau, le corps au travail. ) Documentary, France, 2009, 75 min., Script and director: Stéphane Metge, production: AMIP, arte France, Ina , German first broadcast: November 15, 2010 by arte, summary by arte.
- Patrice Chéreau: eclectic and Elektra. Conversation with video recordings, France, 2013, 42:30 min., Moderation: Vincent Josse, production: arte France, editing: Square , first broadcast: July 7, 2013 by arte, summary by arte. Interview and video clips on the occasion of the Festival d'Aix-en-Provence .
Web links
- Literature by and about Patrice Chéreau in the catalog of the German National Library
- Patrice Chéreau in the Internet Movie Database (English)
supporting documents
- ↑ Christine Lemke-Matwey : "Wagner is lighter than Mozart" In: Der Tagesspiegel , February 24, 2007 (interview).
- ^ "Intimacy" director Patrice Chéreau is dead. In: Spiegel Online , October 7, 2013
- ↑ Mort de Patrice Chereau. In: Liberation , October 7, 2013 (French)
- ↑ See information and grave photo on knerger.de
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Chereau, Patrice |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French director |
DATE OF BIRTH | November 2, 1944 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Lézigné |
DATE OF DEATH | October 7, 2013 |
Place of death | Paris |